Do you suffer from iTunes-ADD? (aka. my irrational music pet-peeve)

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Does anyone recognise this syndrome? I run into it whenever I'm at with friends somewhere and people are playing music through iTunes/iPods or whatever. There's this tendency among certain individuals to change songs every 30 seconds or so, and it drives me crazy :p I realise the need to heard different songs etc. when exploring, and that not everyone likes the songs being played but, for the love of God, at least let the song finish!

It gets increasingly harder when you're like me and like long, complex songs which usually don't hit their peak until after five or so minutes.

Anyone feel that they're being targeted here? :p
 
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I tend to be the type who changes songs before they're done yes, but I do allow for more than 30 seconds. :P
 
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People get less tolerant towards new music. I see it more and more. I think it’s because of the amount of music that people get for free.

Sometimes people can’t deal with this huge amount, get disorientated or impatient and draw their conclusions after 30 seconds.
 
I can understand it if it's not your music, but there are people who will do that kind of thing with their own music, that they ought to know if they like or not from the start :p
 
I think people do it mostly because they can't find the right song to match their current mood. It's not so much a matter of liking  the song as the song fitting that particular moment. Some days I feel impatient and just want to hear a certain riff or lyric, then move on to the next song. Long and complex songs are hard to enjoy in certain moods.
 
Point taken, I can appreciate that.

Might just be that they always change the songs that fit my mood :p
 
Alright, I thought that it was about hearing songs for the first time.

Still Helphyres theory doesn't make sense to me when we talk about skipping after 30 seconds. Thoughts work faster like that, I guess? People still don't know how they feel after 29 seconds?

I'd say, people who want to listen to music that fits to a certain mood, go straight to one or more tracks in mind, and not after 30 seconds.
 
I don't have iTunes, but I have a Flash drive in my car. It plays songs at random. Most of them are Maiden, but I do have other bands on there. If a song comes on that I don't like or have heard so many times before, I wait like 5 seconds and change it  :blush: It shows the title of the song, and if it's one I don't want to hear at that time I'll change it. So I rarely wait 30 seconds...it's usually 5!  :blush:

The only time I skip a Maiden song is if I'm almost at work and don't have time for the whole song. Other than that, I listen to the whole thing
 
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As for being on topic, I haven't had that syndrome.  My friends usually know what they want, and it's usually such a hassle to change that we wouldn't do it anyway.
 
Depending on my mood, I might hammer the next song key ten, twenty, thirty times before I hit a song I want.
 
This topic makes me realise that some people - even those who actually do appreciate the music - just don't give albums a proper listen. If I listen to music, I rarely listen to randomly chosen tracks, I have to listen to the whole album.
 
If I'm at home, I will listen to a whole album. In my car usually it's at random. But I do have a CD player in there too, so I can put a CD in if I wish  ;)
 
Albie said:
This topic makes me realise that some people - even those who actually do appreciate the music - just don't give albums a proper listen. If I listen to music, I rarely listen to randomly chosen tracks, I have to listen to the whole album.
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There's something to be said for complete randomness though. i.e. using shuffle, not just picking a track at random, but eliminating yourself from the process entirely. I've rediscovered plenty of albums I'd "forgotten" about in my collection by shuffling.

But I'm usually an album or "best of"-listener. I might have a favourite track that I'll use to start off an album, but I rarely go from one album to another hearing a few.
 
Sometimes, I can't decide what to listen to, so I just go with shuffle, and if a song I'm not fussed on comes up, I'll skip it, until I find a song I do want to listen to. 

As to Forostar's comment, I severely doubt that people can change moods in the space of 30 seconds, without being classified as schizophrenics.  It's perfectly reasonable to start off listening to a song, then realising that you don't feel in the mood for it after about half a minute.
 
Shuffle is good when you want a selection of bands and don't want to make a separate playlist.  It's also good for discovering those less listened to tracks.  However, I rarely shuffle a single artist, especially not Maiden.
 
Albie said:
This topic makes me realise that some people - even those who actually do appreciate the music - just don't give albums a proper listen. If I listen to music, I rarely listen to randomly chosen tracks, I have to listen to the whole album.
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I play my ipod at work, and I go back and forth. Some days, it's on shuffle all day. Other days, I'll play albums.

My biggest annoyance with the ipod is that there's no way to make shuffle mode respect tracks which belong together. There's nothing worse than hearing "The Hellion", and then not hearing "Electric Eye" immediately following. I've asked a few people about this, and I've always gotten the same answer: the only way to avoid this is either a) find a way to re-rip the tracks as one single track, or b) make a playlist.

Apple needs to add a feature where ipod can be told: "These 2 songs belong together; don't play one without the other."
 
@Raven:

Well, I think I know what you mean, but if people really find music so important for their moods, why play shuffle and skip often? This contradictional process is not the best for batteries as well. ;)
 
Forostar said:
@Raven:

Well, I think I know what you mean, but if people really find music so important for their moods, why play shuffle and skip often? This contradictional process is not the best for batteries as well. ;)
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Sometimes, you can't decide what you want to listen to until the track plays.  For an example, most of the stuff on my computer is Maiden bootlegs (which I must get round to deleting some of).  I just skip through the low-quality ones, unless something really good comes up.  Right now, I've got The Coming Curse (1998 ;)) playing, but I wouldn't have put it on unless it was shuffled.
 
Instead of skipping minor tracks I often compiled best-of tapes and best-of CDs. Not long after I discovered a new band I tried to gather all the albums and decided which tracks I liked best. Those I picked for a CD and in the earlier days I recorded them on a cassette.

With bands that I really liked a lot, e.g. Black Sabbath, I started with one tape but I ended up with three. ;)
 
I've considered doing that with playlists, but I often find that I'll just listen to an album if I'm thinking of a particular artist.  I have a playlist of some of my favourite songs up on my Last.fm page (and it keeps growing!), so I suppose I could make a best-of from that...but then there's the handful of albums that I got recently that I need to get more familiar with, so it's just a question of what I do whenever I pick up my mp3 player.  Since I'm working on my computer, most of the time, I find that I don't really absorb music, so shuffling is as good as anything (although I do play a lot of albums for my Last.fm)
 
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